ABSTRACT
When considering the current relevance of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture it is important to recognize that many of the ideas initially presented in the book have undergone several subsequent reiterations and subtle adaptations. Perhaps the primary theoretical debate in which the Location of Culture can be placed is that of universality. The ideas contained within The Location of Culture also represent a significant challenge to Marxist thought, which relies for its analysis on an assumption that capitalism is a universal driving force in global development. The debate around The Location of Culture tends to return to the question of whether analyses of colonized cultures can coexist with analyses of global systems. Bhabha remains an influential figure within postcolonial studies, and much of his work is still accepted and used as the jumping-off point for further postcolonial research, or for attacks on that field as a whole.
