Gender Identity and Livelihood Reconstruction of"DaNiang"in Relocation Projects:Economic Strategies of Rural Elderly Women in S Resettlement Community on Yellow River Beach Area
Relocation projects can effectively help the masses getting out of the predicament of development,but the impact on livelihood after resettlement cannot be underestimated.Existing researches have made detailed discussions on livelihood conditions and policy support to farmers after relocation,but relevant studies are often lack of the gender perspective and rarely explore how farmers use their own initiatives to cope with livelihood changes and reconstruction in daily lives.Based on the relocation project of residents in the Yellow River beach area,this paper focuses on the elderly women who are often considered to be vulnerable group living in a community in northwest Shandong Province,and analyzes how they utilize various gender strategies to cope with the livelihood crisis after resettlement.The research finds that,on one hand,in daily lives after resettlement,the rural elderly women can not only negotiate with grassroot cadres for economic benefits by displaying"weak femininity",but also timely switch their gender roles and become the leader in rebuilding family lives.On the other hand,subject to the gender identity imagination of"good wife and mother"and"mother substitute when raising grandchildren",the rural elderly women can only do a variety of odd jobs to rebuild family livelihood in the gap between heavy housework and caring for children.This study shows the extraordinary resilience of rural elderly women in coping with life difficulties,presents the concrete practical experience of female subjectivity under the specific context of resettlement,even outlines the complex path of interaction between gender identity and economic practice in relocation.
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