This paper explores the question of universal‐particular through the anti‐war Pashtun Tahaffuz (Protection) Movement in Pakistan. With its demands couched in the language of pain, rights to life and “dignity”, the PTM mobilises popular Pashtun sentiments as a “partisan universal”: a political formulation which achieves the common good even as it attends to particular interests. However, within the re‐formulated urban question in post‐9/11 Pakistan, PTM also attempts to make common cause with other ethnic‐spatial communities through shared—but situated and differentiated—experiences of dispossession. Thus, the PTM’s “dialectic of experience” is a partisan universal in search of a “concrete universal”: a non‐totalising but encompassing and open universality, a universal politics which works through the particularity of specific groups’ experiences. It is in this terrain of political practice, and its attendant theoretical articulations, that we will find the—contingent and processual—resolution of the transition from particularity to universality.

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从Partisan Universal到Concrete Universal？巴基斯坦的普什图（Pashtun）Tahaffuz运动

本文通过反战Pashtun Tahaffuz（保护）运动来探讨普遍问题。在巴基斯坦。PTM以痛苦，生命权和“尊严”的语言表达需求，动员了普什图人的普遍情绪作为“党派普遍性”：一种政治表述，即使遵循特定利益也能实现共同利益。但是，在9/11之后的巴基斯坦，重新设计的城市问题中，PTM还试图通过共享的，但定位和差异化的剥夺经验，与其他族裔空间社区达成共同的事业。因此，PTM的“经验的辩证”是一种党派的普遍性，以寻求“具体的普遍性”：一种不合计但包容和开放的普遍性，一种通过特定群体的经验特殊性起作用的普遍性政治。正是在这个政治实践领域以及随之而来的理论阐述中，