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Associate professor Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology astrid.hovden@uit.no +4777623367 You can find me here

Astrid Hovden

  • Jan Kropáček, Astrid Hovden :
    The Role of Natural Hazards and Socio-Cultural Factors in Shaping the History of Settlement Locations in the Limi Valley, North-West Nepal
    Springer 2024 DOI
  • Hildegard G.M. Diemberger, Astrid Hovden :
    People of the Cryosphere: a Cross-Regional, Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Icescapes in a Changing Climate
    Berghahn Books 2022 DOI
  • Astrid Hovden, Hanna Havnevik :
    Balancing the Sacred Landscape: Environmental Management in Limi, North-Western Nepal
    Routledge 2021
  • J. Kropacek, N. Neckel, B. Tyrna, N. Holzer, Astrid Hovden, Noel Gourmelen et al.:
    Repeated glacial lake outburst flood threatening the oldest Buddhist monastery in north-western Nepal
    Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 2015 DOI
  • Hildegard G.M. Diemberger, Astrid Hovden, Emily T. Yeh :
    The honour of the snow-mountains is the snow: Tibetan livelihoods in a changing climate
    Cambridge University Press 2015 DOI
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Who were the sponsors? Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in three Himalayan village monasteries
    2013
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Ritualised memories: Maintenance of the Saga Dawa festival tradition in contemporary Lhasa
    International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH 2011
  • Astrid Hovden, Rinchen Loden Lama :
    Water, women and work: reflections on gendered responses to environmental and climatic change in Limi, Nepal
    2022
  • Astrid Hovden, Riamsara Kuyakanon, Hanna Havnevik, Sissel Thorsdalen, Runhild Seim :
    Changing climate and communities in high places and icy spaces
    Changing climate and communities in high places and icy spaces 2022
  • Hanna Havnevik, Astrid Hovden, Sissel Thorsdalen :
    https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/projects/himalayas/
    2022
  • Hanna Havnevik, Riamsara Kuyakanon, Astrid Hovden, Hildegard G.M. Diemberger :
    Contribution (with seven other international scholars) during Roundtable: Changing climate in Tibetan, Himalayan and Mongolian regions: adaptive strategies in dynamic social, ecological and cosmological landscapes.
    2022
  • Jan Kropáček, Astrid Hovden :
    Relocations of settlements in Limi Valley in Humla driven by natural hazards in the context of a changing climate?
    2021
  • Serena Amatya, Sunayana Basnet, Sushmita Kunwar, Binaya Pasakhala, Pradyumna Rana, Astrid Hovden et al.:
    Proceedings of the workshop on Environmental management in a changing climate Communicating local perspectives from the Kailash Sacred Landscape 30 September – 1 October 2019
    2020
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Introductory talk: Environmental management in a changing climate - communicating local perspectives from the Kailash Sacred Landscape
    2019
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Environmental management in the new municipalities in Nepal – conflicting or complementing systems?
    2019
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Hva betyr religion for klimaet i Himalaya?
    2019
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Continuity and changes in environmental decision-making in a Himalayan border community
    2019
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Can Buddhism contribute to climate change adaptation in Nepal?
    2019
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Fieldwork case study I: Limi, Nepal
    2018
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Digital tools and outputs
    2018
  • Hanna Havnevik, Astrid Hovden :
    Himalayan connections: melting glaciers, sacred landscapes and mobile technologies in a changing climate
    2018
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Melting glaciers, religious authorities and new connectivities in Himalayan communities
    2017
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Between village and monastery: a historical ethnography of a Tibetan Buddhist community in north-western Nepal. PhD thesis resumé.
    Études Mongoles & Sibériennes, Centrasiatiques & Tibétaines 2017
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Monastic Recruitment, Household Organisation, and New Networks of Patronage in a Himalayan Frontier Community
    2016
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Patronage, Monastic Recruitment and Household Organisation in a Himalayan Community
    2016
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Stolte buddhister
    03. February 2016
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Between village and monastery. A historical ethnography of a Tibetan Buddhist community in north-western Nepal
    Nauka 2016
  • Manfred Buchroithner, J. Kropacek, J. Trültzsch, T. Himpel, Astrid Hovden, N. Holzer et al.:
    Kailash/Gurla Mandhata trekking map 11 (Tibet/Nepal 1:100.000). Institute for Cartography of the Dresden University of Technology, first edition.
    2014
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Five Hundred Years of Flood Management – Environmental Adaption Strategies in a Community in the Nepal Himalayas
    2014
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Still paying bod khral and mon khral: Taxes and community obligations in a Himalayan village
    2013
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Coping with floods: changing environmental adaptation strategies in a community in the Nepal Himalayas
    2013
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Rinchen Sangpo og den andre spreiinga av buddhismen i Tibet – sett frå Limi, Nepal
    2013
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Paying the monk tax: Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in Himalayan village monasteries
    2013
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Seminar on Academic Writing and Study Techniques
    2013
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Who were the sponsors? Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in three Himalayan village monasteries
    2013
  • Ane Ohrvik, Astrid Hovden :
    Erfaringer med å søke og gjennomføre phd-prosjekter
    2012
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Ethical considerations in ethnographic fieldwork – experiences from Nepal
    2012
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Rinchenling gompa in Halji - the oldest monastery in the Nepal Himalayas?
    2012
  • Astrid Hovden :
    floodinhumla
    2011 DATA
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Himalayan village caught between culture and nature
    24. August 2011
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Rituals of Rinchenling - preliminary results from fieldwork in Limi, northwestern Nepal
    2011
  • Astrid Hovden :
    If this is what a small glacial lake flood can do, imagine a big one
    Nepali Times 29. July 2011
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Tibetanske festival- og pilegrimstradisjonar: Feiring av Saga Dawa og Drugpa Tseshi festivalane i dagens Lhasa
    2010
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Omgrepet "stad" som analytisk kategori i religionsvitskapen
    2009
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Seminar in academic writing
    2009
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Vidareføring av tibetanske pilegrimstradisjonar i dagens Lhasa
    2007
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Celebrating festivals, negotiating memories: A study of the Drugpa Tseshi tradition in Lhasa
    2007
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Ritual, place and memory: maintenance of religious festival traditions in contemporary Lhasa
    Universitetet i Bergen 2006
  • Astrid Hovden :
    Ritualised memories: Maintenance of the Saga Dawa festival tradition in contemporary Lhasa
    2006

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    Research interests

    Current research:
    I am currently studying climate change adaptation in Himalaya, as part of the project “Himalayan Connections: Melting Glaciers, Sacred Landscapes and Mobile Technologies in a Changing Climate” (HimalConnect) funded by the Research Council of Norway.

    The project explores the historical and current perceptions and responses to environmental hazards in two Buddhist communities in the Himalaya, and how they change with the introduction of new connectivities and new modes of governance. Particular focus is given to how knowledge about such management strategies can be scaled out and made relevant across the different decision-making levels of environmental management.

    Further research interests:

    Teaching

    I give lectures at the following courses:

    REL-1025 South Asian religions
    REL-1027 Religion, natur og klima
    REL-1050 Teori og metode I
    REL-2005 Religionsvitenskapens faghistorie
    REL-2020 Fordypning i religionsvitenskap
    REL-2050 Teori og metode II

    In addition, I supervise BA and MA-students


    Member of research group

    Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks (INREL)   Norsk innhold Religion and Wellbeing   English content