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Bilde av Hovden, Astrid
Department of Archaeology, History, Religious Studies and Theology astrid.hovden@uit.no +4777623367 Tromsø You can find me here

Astrid Hovden

  • Jan, Astrid :
    The Role of Natural Hazards and Socio-Cultural Factors in Shaping the History of Settlement Locations in the Limi Valley, North-West Nepal
    2024 DOI
  • Hildegard G.M., Astrid :
    People of the Cryosphere: a Cross-Regional, Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Icescapes in a Changing Climate
    2022 DOI
  • Astrid, Hanna :
    Balancing the Sacred Landscape: Environmental Management in Limi, North-Western Nepal
    2021
  • Hildegard G.M., Astrid, Emily T. :
    The honour of the snow-mountains is the snow: Tibetan livelihoods in a changing climate
    2015 DOI
  • J., N., B., N., Astrid, Noel et al.:
    Repeated glacial lake outburst flood threatening the oldest Buddhist monastery in north-western Nepal
    Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 2015 DOI
  • Astrid :
    Who were the sponsors? Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in three Himalayan village monasteries
    2013
  • Astrid :
    Ritualised memories: Maintenance of the Saga Dawa festival tradition in contemporary Lhasa
    2011
  • Astrid :
    Limi, the Land In-Between: The Art of Governing a Buddhist Frontier Community in the Himalaya
    Brill Academic Publishers 2025
  • Marco, Jan, Astrid, Fred, Thomas, Dieter :
    Seven Years in Nepal: High-Altitude (5350 m a.s.l.) Automatic Weather Station at Halji (Nepal) for Snow Height and Air Temperature Data (2018-2025) to Support GLOF Risk Assessment
    25. September 2025
  • Astrid, Riamsara, Hanna, Sissel, Runhild :
    Changing climate and communities in high places and icy spaces
    2022
  • Astrid, Rinchen Loden :
    Water, women and work: reflections on gendered responses to environmental and climatic change in Limi, Nepal
    2022
  • Hanna, Riamsara, Astrid, Hildegard G.M. :
    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, Astrid :
    Relocations of settlements in Limi Valley in Humla driven by natural hazards in the context of a changing climate?
    2021
  • Serena, Sunayana, Sushmita, Binaya, Pradyumna, Astrid 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
    ICIMOD 2020
  • Astrid :
    Continuity and changes in environmental decision-making in a Himalayan border community
    2019
  • Astrid :
    Hva betyr religion for klimaet i Himalaya?
    2019
  • Astrid :
    Can Buddhism contribute to climate change adaptation in Nepal?
    2019
  • Astrid :
    Environmental management in the new municipalities in Nepal – conflicting or complementing systems?
    2019
  • Astrid :
    Introductory talk: Environmental management in a changing climate - communicating local perspectives from the Kailash Sacred Landscape
    2019
  • Astrid :
    Fieldwork case study I: Limi, Nepal
    2018
  • Astrid :
    Digital tools and outputs
    2018
  • Hanna, Astrid :
    Himalayan connections: melting glaciers, sacred landscapes and mobile technologies in a changing climate
    2018
  • Astrid :
    Melting glaciers, religious authorities and new connectivities in Himalayan communities
    2017
  • Astrid :
    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 :
    Between village and monastery. A historical ethnography of a Tibetan Buddhist community in north-western Nepal
    Nauka 2016
  • Astrid :
    Stolte buddhister
    03. Februar 2016
  • Astrid :
    Monastic Recruitment, Household Organisation, and New Networks of Patronage in a Himalayan Frontier Community
    2016
  • Astrid :
    Patronage, Monastic Recruitment and Household Organisation in a Himalayan Community
    2016
  • Astrid :
    Five Hundred Years of Flood Management – Environmental Adaption Strategies in a Community in the Nepal Himalayas
    2014
  • Astrid :
    Rinchen Sangpo og den andre spreiinga av buddhismen i Tibet – sett frå Limi, Nepal
    2013
  • Astrid :
    Coping with floods: changing environmental adaptation strategies in a community in the Nepal Himalayas
    2013
  • Astrid :
    Who were the sponsors? Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in three Himalayan village monasteries
    2013
  • Astrid :
    Seminar on Academic Writing and Study Techniques
    2013
  • Astrid :
    Paying the monk tax: Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in Himalayan village monasteries
    2013
  • Astrid :
    Still paying bod khral and mon khral: Taxes and community obligations in a Himalayan village
    2013
  • Ane, Astrid :
    Erfaringer med å søke og gjennomføre phd-prosjekter
    2012
  • Astrid :
    Ethical considerations in ethnographic fieldwork – experiences from Nepal
    2012
  • Astrid :
    If this is what a small glacial lake flood can do, imagine a big one
    29. Juli 2011
  • Astrid :
    Rituals of Rinchenling - preliminary results from fieldwork in Limi, northwestern Nepal
    2011
  • Astrid :
    Himalayan village caught between culture and nature
    24. August 2011
  • Astrid :
    Tibetanske festival- og pilegrimstradisjonar: Feiring av Saga Dawa og Drugpa Tseshi festivalane i dagens Lhasa
    2010
  • Astrid :
    Omgrepet "stad" som analytisk kategori i religionsvitskapen
    2009
  • Astrid :
    Seminar in academic writing
    2009
  • Astrid :
    Celebrating festivals, negotiating memories: A study of the Drugpa Tseshi tradition in Lhasa
    2007
  • Astrid :
    Vidareføring av tibetanske pilegrimstradisjonar i dagens Lhasa
    2007
  • Astrid :
    Ritualised memories: Maintenance of the Saga Dawa festival tradition in contemporary Lhasa
    2006
  • Astrid :
    Ritual, place and memory: maintenance of religious festival traditions in contemporary Lhasa
    Universitetet i Bergen 2006

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    Research interests

    Pågåande forsking:
    Eg forskar på klimatilpassing i Himalaya, som del av NFR-prosjektet Himalayan Connections: Melting Glaciers, Sacred Landscapes and Mobile Technologies in a Changing Climate (HimalConnect). Prosjektet undersøker kunnskap om miljøforvaltning og handlingsstrategiar i møte med naturkatastrofar og klimaendringar i buddhistiske samfunn i Himalaya.

    Limi i Nepal og Punakha i Bhutan har dei siste åra blitt utsatt for klimarelaterte katastrofar som flaum frå smeltande isbrear (eng. GLOF) og jordskred, samtidig som samfunna også får ny infrastruktur, telefonforbindelse og nye former for styresett. Prosjektgruppa skal produsere samanliknande analyser av tilpassing til klimaendringar i Himalaya, samt bidra til å utvikle metodologi for korleis kunnskap om lokal miljøforvaltning kan oppskalerast og nyttiggjerast av beslutningstakarar på regionalt, nasjonalt og internasjonalt nivå.

    Andre forskingsinteresser:

    • Buddhisme
    • Klimatilpassing i Himalaya
    • Religion og økonomi
    • Reilgion og politikk
    • Indigenitet
    • Sosialhistorie
    • Tibet- og Himalayastudier

    Teaching

    Eg underviser på føgjande emne:

    REL-1025 South Asian religions
    REL-1027 Religion, natur og klima
    REL-1050 Teori og metode I
    REL-2005 Religionsvitenskapens faghistorie
    REL-2006 Religionsvitenskapelig fordypning II
    REL-2015 Religionsvitenskapelig fordypning I - Bacheloroppgave
    REL-2020 Fordypningsoppgave i religionsvitenskap for lektor 8-13
    REL-2050 Teori og metode II
    REL-3056 Prosjektplanlegging i religionsvitenskap
    REL-3057 Fordyning i religionsvitenskap III
    REL-3058 Fordypning i religionsvitenskap IV

    I tillegg er eg rettleiar for BA og MA-studentar


    Member of research group

    Indigenous Religion(s): Local Grounds, Global Networks (INREL)   Norsk innhold Religion and Wellbeing   English content
    Breiviklia N311


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