PhD Student

Email: irenitemi.abolade@tudublin.ie

Thesis Summary:

In today’s world, there is a never-ending need to diversify, integrate, collaborate, and institutionalise knowledge production. Knowledge shapes the human world. Unfortunately, a singular knowledge system has dominated and captured the rest of the world. This form of knowledge and its producers have been situated for decades, making their knowledge systems dominant and encroaching. This has resulted in the devastating silencing of alternative forms of knowledge, mainly because the dominant knowledge systems attained dominance through cruel measures. Therefore, it has become pertinent to switch the gear of knowledge production to include those who have suffered silencing for decades. Using a decolonial feminist lens, my PhD will provide a space for this marginalised group, particularly women. Decolonisation is a theoretical lens that seeks to understand Indigenous marginalised people from the contextual realities of local experiences. It is an approach that reveals the weakness of Western universalism, which views Indigenous populations from Western-oriented prisms even in the postcolonial era. My research adopts an ethnographic methodology, which allows me to “live” the lives of my participants and better understand their ways of being and doing. Findings from this study will provide an alternative to the field of Organisation and Management Studies.

About me: Irenitemi is a third-year PhD student at the School of Management, People, and Organisation, studying Critical Management Studies. Her research is focused on surfacing alternative knowledge production from a colonial difference. Irenitemi is a recipient of the First Time Supervisor’s TU Dublin postgraduate Award. She has a master’s degree in Sociology of Development from the University of Ibadan. Irenitemi is interested in exploring the lived experiences of marginalised women from the Global South to uncover their potential as agents of knowledge production. Throughout the course of her studies, she has presented and attended various national and international conferences. The recent would be the Gender, Work and Organization conference in Canada and the 1^st virtual Organization conference.