Faglige interesser
- Buddhisme
- Tibetansk religion
- Religion og økologi
- Klima og miljø-forvaltning i Tibet og Himalaya
- Religion og økonomi
- Sosialhistorie
- Religion og politikk
- Religiøs endring
- Pilegrimstradisjoner i Tibet og Himalaya
- Tibetansk buddhistiske kloster
- Asiatiske religionar
- Religionsantropologi
- Religionsvitskapleg teori og metode
Undervisning
Bakgrunn
- Førsteamanuensis i religionsvitenskap, UiO 2025-
- Førsteamanuensis i religionsvitenskap, UiT 2019-2025
- Postdoc, UiO 2018-19
- Førsteamanuensis i religionsvitenskap (vikar), UiT 2018
- Førstelektor i religionsvitenskap (vikar), UiO 2017
- Programkoordinator Nettverk for universitetssamarbeid Tibet-Norge 2016-17
- Koordinator IATS konferansen, UiB 2015-16
- PhD religionsvitskap / Tibet-studier, UiO 2016
- Cand. Philol. religionsvitskap, UiB 2006
Priser
Asianettverkets pris for beste MA/Hovedfagsoppgave 2006
Emneord:
Religionsvitenskap,
Religionshistorie,
Buddhisme,
Tibet,
Himalaya,
Nepal,
Religion og økologi,
Ritualer
Publikasjoner
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Kropáček, Jan & Hovden, Astrid
(2024).
The Role of Natural Hazards and Socio-Cultural Factors in Shaping the History of Settlement Locations in the Limi Valley, North-West Nepal.
I Kalvoda, Jan & Novotná, Eva (Red.),
The Nature of Geomorphological Hazards in the Nepal Himalaya.
Springer.
ISSN 9783031584206.
s. 359–374.
doi:
10.1007/978-3-031-58421-3_11.
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Diemberger, Hildegard G.M. & Hovden, Astrid
(2022).
People of the Cryosphere: a Cross-Regional, Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Icescapes in a Changing Climate.
I Ulturgasheva, Olga & Bodenhorn, Barbara (Red.),
Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North.
Berghahn Books.
ISSN 9781800735934.
s. 148–175.
doi:
10.3167/9781800735934.
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Hovden, Astrid & Havnevik, Hanna
(2021).
Balancing the Sacred Landscape: Environmental Management in Limi, North-Western Nepal.
I Kuyakanon, Riamsara; Diemberger, Hildegard G.M. & Sneath, David (Red.),
Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia: Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments.
Routledge.
ISSN 9780367477363.
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Diemberger, Hildegard G.M.; Hovden, Astrid & Yeh, Emily T.
(2015).
The honour of the snow-mountains is the snow: Tibetan livelihoods in a changing climate.
I Huggel, Christian; Carey, Mark; Clague, John J. & Kääb, Andreas (Red.),
The High-Mountain Cryosphere: Environmental Changes and Human Risks.
Cambridge University Press.
ISSN 9781107065840.
s. 249–271.
doi:
10.1017/cbo9781107588653.014.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2013).
Who were the sponsors? Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in three Himalayan village monasteries.
I Ramble, Charles; Schwieger, Peter & Travers, Alice (Red.),
Tibetans who Escaped the Historian's Net: Studies in the Social History of Tibetan Societies.
Vajra Publications.
ISSN 9789937623100.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2026).
Cultural and environmental heritage in Limi: thoughts on its challenges and political relevance.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2025).
What does Buddhism have to do with it? Local responses to climate change in north-west Nepal.
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Otto, Marco; Kropáček, Jan; Hovden, Astrid; Meier, Fred; Gentsch, Thomas & Scherer, Dieter
(2025).
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.
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Hovden, Astrid; Kuyakanon, Riamsara; Havnevik, Hanna; Thorsdalen, Sissel & Seim, Runhild
(2022).
Changing climate and communities in high places and icy spaces.
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Hovden, Astrid & Lama, Rinchen Loden
(2022).
Water, women and work: reflections on gendered responses to environmental and climatic change in Limi, Nepal.
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Havnevik, Hanna; Kuyakanon, Riamsara; Hovden, Astrid & Diemberger, Hildegard G.M.
(2022).
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.
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Kropáček, Jan & Hovden, Astrid
(2021).
Relocations of settlements in Limi Valley in Humla driven by natural hazards in the context of a changing climate?
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Hovden, Astrid
(2019).
Continuity and changes in environmental decision-making in a Himalayan border community.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2019).
Environmental management in the new municipalities in Nepal – conflicting or complementing systems?
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Hovden, Astrid
(2019).
Introductory talk: Environmental management in a changing climate - communicating local perspectives from the Kailash Sacred Landscape.
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Havnevik, Hanna & Hovden, Astrid
(2018).
Himalayan connections: melting glaciers, sacred landscapes and mobile technologies in a changing climate.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2017).
Melting glaciers, religious authorities and new connectivities in Himalayan communities.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2017).
Between village and monastery: a historical ethnography of a Tibetan Buddhist community in north-western Nepal. PhD thesis resumé.
Études Mongoles & Sibériennes, Centrasiatiques & Tibétaines.
ISSN 0766-5075.
48.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2016).
Monastic Recruitment, Household Organisation, and New Networks of Patronage in a Himalayan Frontier Community.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2016).
Patronage, Monastic Recruitment and Household Organisation in a Himalayan Community.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2014).
Five Hundred Years of Flood Management – Environmental Adaption Strategies in a Community in the Nepal Himalayas.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2013).
Rinchen Sangpo og den andre spreiinga av buddhismen i Tibet – sett frå Limi, Nepal.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2013).
Coping with floods: changing environmental adaptation strategies in a community in the Nepal Himalayas.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2013).
Who were the sponsors? Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in three Himalayan village monasteries.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2013).
Paying the monk tax: Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in Himalayan village monasteries.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2013).
Still paying bod khral and mon khral: Taxes and community obligations in a Himalayan village.
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Ohrvik, Ane & Hovden, Astrid
(2012).
Erfaringer med å søke og gjennomføre phd-prosjekter.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2012).
Ethical considerations in ethnographic fieldwork – experiences from Nepal.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2011).
If this is what a small glacial lake flood can do, imagine a big one.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2011).
Rituals of Rinchenling - preliminary results from fieldwork in Limi, northwestern Nepal.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2010).
Tibetanske festival- og pilegrimstradisjonar: Feiring av Saga Dawa og Drugpa Tseshi festivalane i dagens Lhasa.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2007).
Celebrating festivals, negotiating memories: A study of the Drugpa Tseshi tradition in Lhasa.
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Hovden, Astrid
(2006).
Ritualised memories: Maintenance of the Saga Dawa festival tradition in contemporary Lhasa.
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Amatya, Serena; Basnet, Sunayana; Kunwar, Sushmita; Pasakhala, Binaya; Rana, Pradyumna & Hovden, Astrid
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(2020).
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.
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5. des. 2025 11:24
- Sist endret
3. juli 2026 10:06