https://allegralaboratory.net/anonymous-reviewer-we-need-to-talk-rejection/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Tue, 17 May 2022 11:07:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/anonymous-reviewer-we-need-to-talk-rejection/#comment-75653 Wed, 13 Jan 2016 10:02:42 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=17226#comment-75653 I have the same dilemma in the last years – to give up, to keep going against the wall?!… But then, great feedback from other people makes you continue and hope: For somebody this will count one day!
At least until the next rejection…
I am keep wondering in the last time how other people do it: their CVs seem full of achievements, their grants seem to flood like a river. For me, it feels falling after each step. Then, again, more research, more applications, more frustrations.
I hope this is not the “victim’s” perspective, but in the last time I came to the same realisation: the ‘real’ research doesn’t happen in the funding schemes, you do certain things because you feel is the right way to do it and because you deeply believe you can make a contribution. In the end, the funding schemes seem to be quite random: no coherent plan, no coherent expected results, no coherent coverage of subjects. The ‘extraordinary’ we so much fight against in anthropology became the main criteria of funding. It is sad and so hugely restrictive, especially since we live in ordinary, but choose to study only the extraordinary.

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