Robert J. C. Young

Quick Facts

Full Name	Robert J. C. Young
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Jun 14, 1950(1950-06-14)
Age	74
Birthplace	Hertfordshire
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Gemini

Robert J. C. Young Biography

Robert J. C. Young is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on June 14, 1950 in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom. Robert J. C. Young FBA was born 1950 and is a British postcolonial historian, cultural critic, theorist, and theorist.

Young (2003) links this postcolonial history to the current activism of the New Social Movements (non-Western) countries. The book is intended to be an introduction to postcolonialism and has a very accessible format. It combines history and fiction, cultural analysis, and moments of poetic intensity. These elements are used to stage and evoke the postcolonial experience, rather than just describe it. The book is based entirely on specific examples, rather than focusing on postcolonialism through abstract and esoteric theories. These examples focus on issues such as migration, gender and language as well as the more common postcolonial ideas like ambivalence and hybridity as well as orientalism, subalternity and orientalism.

In The Idea of English Ethnicity (2008) Young returned to the question of race to address an apparent contradiction—the idea of an English ethnicity. Why does ethnicity not seem to be a category applicable to English people? To answer this question, Young reconsiders the way that English identity was classified in historical and racial terms in the nineteenth century. He argues that what most affected this was the relation of England to Ireland after the Act of Union of 1800–1. Initial attempts at excluding the Irish were followed by a more inclusive idea of Englishness which removed the specificities of race and even place. Englishness, Young suggests, was never really about England at all, but was developed as a broader identity, intended to include not only the Irish (and thus deter Irish nationalism) but also the English diaspora around the world—North Americans, South Africans, Australians and New Zealanders, and even, for some writers, Indians and those from the Caribbean. By the end of the nineteenth century, this had become appropriated as an ideology of empire. The delocalisation of the country England from ideas of Englishness (Kipling’s “What do they know of England who only England know?”) could account for why recent commentators have found Englishness so hard to define—while at the same time providing an explanation of why some of the most English of Englishmen have been Americans. On the other hand, Young argues, its broad principle of inclusiveness also helps to explain why Britain has been able to transform itself into one of the most integrated, or hybridized, of modern multiethnic nations.

As a graduate student at Oxford, he was one of the founding editors of the Oxford Literary Review, the first British journal devoted to literary and philosophical theory. Young is Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies which is published eight times a year. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. In 2013 he was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, in 2017 he was elected to an honorary life fellowship at Wadham College, Oxford. Robert Young is currently President of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory.

Young has deconstructed “white Marxism” through the lense of postcolonial theories in White Mythologies (2001). He then charts the genealogy of postcolonial theorists in the very different trajectory that Marxism was the main ideological component of twentieth century anti-colonial struggles. This book is the first to provide a genealogy of anticolonial thought, practice and history that form the roots postcolonialism. It also traces the relationship between the history of national liberation movements and the development of postcolonial theories. Young stresses the importance of Mao Zedong’s reorientation for the landless peasant to be the revolutionary subject. He also points out the Havana Tricontinental in 1966 as the first independent joining together of the South-African, Asia, and Latin American continents in political solidarity. Young argues that this was the moment when what is now called “postcolonial theory” was first formalized as a knowledge-base of non Western political and cultural production.

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Robert J. C. Young is one of the richest Historian from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robert J. C. Young 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Young’s work is often credited with being “at least partially instrumental” in the radicalization of postcolonialism. His first book, White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990) argues that Marxist philosophies of history had claimed to be world histories but had really only ever been histories of the West, seen from a Eurocentric–even if anti- capitalist–perspective. Young offers a thorough critique of various versions of European Marxist historicalism, from Lukacs and Jameson. Young suggests that postcolonial theory has made it possible to allow different forms of history/historicisation that are not based on the Western paradigm of universal history. Young suggests that although postcolonial theory employs certain concepts of post-structuralism in order to do this, Young also argues that poststructuralism itself was an anticolonial critique of Western philosophy. He points out the influence of the Algerian War of Independence on the lives of many French philosophers of the time, such as Bourdieu, Cixous and Lyotard. White Mythologies was first to define postcolonial theory as an academic field and to identify its intellectual core as the work of Edward W. Said and Gayatri Chakravorty SPivak, Homi. K. Bhabha, and the Subaltern Studies historians.

In Colonial Desire (1995) Young examined the history of the concept of ‘hybridity’, showing its genealogy through nineteenth-century racial theory and twentieth-century linguistics, prior to its counter-appropriation and transformation into an innovative cultural-political concept by postcolonial theorists in the 1990s. Young shows how racial theory has been developed in historical, scientific, and cultural terms. He argues that this complexity explains why racialised thinking is able to survive to the present era, despite numerous attempts to discredit it since 1945. He suggests that the most serious mistake has been the assumption that race was created in the nineteenth century as a science that can be challenged on scientific grounds.

He was educated at Repton School and Exeter College, Oxford, where he read for a B.A. and D.Phil., taught at the University of Southampton, and then returned to Oxford University where he was Professor of English and Critical Theory and a fellow of Wadham College. In 2005, he moved to New York University where he is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature. From 2015 – 2018, he was Dean of Arts & Humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi.

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What is the postcolonial Robert JC Young summary?

Above all, Young argues that postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, which in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past and enables us to decolonize our own lives in the present.

What is the post colonial robert young?

At a political level, Page 12 24 Robert J. C. Young post colonialism is concerned with developing the driving ideas of a political practice morally committed to transforming the conditions of exploitation and poverty in which large sections of the world’s popula- tion live out their daily lives.

What is postcolonialism theory?

Postcolonial theory is a body of thought primarily concerned with accounting for the political, aesthetic, economic, historical, and social impact of European colonial rule around the world in the 18th through the 20th century.

What is meant by postcolonialism?

postcolonialism, the historical period or state of affairs representing the aftermath of Western colonialism ; the term can also be used to describe the concurrent project to reclaim and rethink the history and agency of people subordinated under various forms of imperialism.

Who is the founder of postcolonialism?

Cultural critic Edward Said is considered by E. San Juan, Jr. as “the originator and inspiring patron-saint of postcolonial theory and discourse” due to his interpretation of the theory of orientalism explained in his 1978 book, Orientalism.