The literature on Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) returnees in Acholiland, northern Uganda tells us that those who returned from the rebel group are likely to experience stigma and social exclusion. While the term is deployed frequently, ‘stigma’ is not a well-developed concept and most of the evidence we have comes from accounts of returnees themselves. Focusing instead on the ‘stigmatizers’, this article theorizes stigmatization as part of the ‘moral experience’ of regulating post-war social repair. Through interview-based and ethnographic methods, it finds that stigmatization of LRA returnees takes many forms and serves multiple functions, calling into question whether this catch-all term actually obscures more than it illuminates. While stigmatization is usually practised as a form of ‘social control’, its function can be ‘reintegrative’ rather than purely exclusionary. Through the northern Uganda case study, this article seeks to advance conceptual and empirical understanding of the manifestations and functions of stigmatization in spaces of return, challenging the logic underpinning those interventions that seek to reduce it.

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正常：在战后北部乌干达，上议院抵抗军海归的污名化是“道德经历”

关于乌干达北部阿霍里兰的上帝抵抗军（LRA）返回者的文献告诉我们，从反叛团体返回的人很可能会遭受污名化和社会排斥。尽管经常使用该词，但“耻辱”并不是一个成熟的概念，我们得到的大多数证据来自返回者本人的描述。本文将重点放在“耻辱者”上，从理论上将污名化作为调节战后社会修复的“道德经验”的一部分。通过基于访谈和人种学的方法，它发现对上帝抵抗军回返者的污名化有多种形式，并具有多种功能，这使人们对这个笼统的术语是否掩盖了更多的疑问表示怀疑。虽然污名化通常是“社会控制”的一种形式，它的功能可以是“重新整合”的，而不是纯粹的排他性的。通过乌干达北部的案例研究，本文旨在增进对回归空间中污名化的表现和功能的概念和实证理解，挑战那些旨在减少这种干预的干预措施的逻辑。