Original CV
Preserved from the previous media library.
Publications
Books and selected recent articles from Göran Therborn’s publication archive.
Books
Translations and second editions before 1990 are not listed, following the previous archive.
2021
Klass i Sverige
Edited with D. Suhonen and J. Weitz, Lund, Arkiv.
2020
Inequality and the Labyrinths of Inequality
London, Verso.
2019
El Estado social de mañana
With P. van Parijs and N. Duvoux, Santiago de Chile, LOM.
2018
Kapitalet, överheten och alla vi andra
Lund, Arkiv.
2017
Cities of Power
London, Verso.
2016
Cities and Power
Edited volume, London, Routledge.
2014
Societá multiculturale
Rome, Alfabeto Treccani / Kindle ebook.
2013
The Killing Fields of Inequality
Cambridge, Polity.
2011
African Capital Cities. Power and Powerlessness
Co-edited with S. Bekker, Cape Town and Dakar, HSRC Press and CODESRIA.
2011
The World. A Beginner’s Guide
Cambridge, Polity Press.
2010
Handbook of European Societies. Social Transformations in the 21st Century
Co-editor and co-author, Berlin and New York, Springer.
2009
Les sociétés d’Europe du XXe au XXI siècle
Paris, Armand Colin.
2009
Post-Soviet Capitals: Minsk, Vilnius, Baku
Co-editor and co-author, Minsk, Belarus State University Press.
2008
From Marxism to Post-Marxism?
London, Verso.
2006
Inequalities of the World
Editor and co-author, London, Verso.
2006
Asia and Europe in Globalization: Continents, Regions, Nations
Co-editor and co-author, Leiden, Brill.
2005
Política social: el mundo contemporáneo y las experiencias de Cuba y de Suecia
With A. Ferriol and R. Castiñeiras, La Habana and Montevideo, INE.
2004
Between Sex and Power. Family in the World 1900-2000
London, Routledge.
2004
African Families in a Global Context
Editor and co-author, Uppsala, Nordic Africa Institute.
2000
Die Gesellschaften Europas 1945-2000
Frankfurt and New York, Campus.
1999
Modernities and Globalizations
Editor and co-author, Stockholm, FRN.
1999
Europa hacia el siglo veintiuno
Mexico, Siglo XXI.
1998
From A Doll’s House to the Welfare State
Co-editor and co-author, Madrid, ISA.
1995
European Modernity and Beyond
London, Sage.
1992
Peripecias de la modernidad
Buenos Aires, Imago Mundi.
1991
Vad styr Sverige?
With M. Blomsterberg et al., Gothenburg, Department of Sociology Research Report.
1991
Vision möter verklighet
With Sven E. Olsson et al., Stockholm, Liber.
1991
Can the Welfare State Compete?
With Alfred Pfaller and Ian Gough, London, Macmillan.
1990
Teorías Contemporáneas del Estado
Maracaibo, Vadell Hermanos and University of Zulia.
1989
Borgarklass och byråkrati i Sverige
Lund, Arkiv.
1989
Ghetto’s in Holland?
With P. Broertje, Amsterdam, Van Gennep.
1986
Why Some Peoples Are More Unemployed Than Others
London, Verso.
1981
Klasstrukturen i Sverige 1930-1980
Lund, Zenit.
1980
The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology
London, Verso.
1978
What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?
London, Verso.
1976
Science, Class and Society
London, Verso.
1973
Vad är bra värderingar värda?
Staffanstorp, Cavefors.
1972
Critica e rivoluzione
Bari, Laterza.
1971
Klasser och ekonomiska system
Staffanstorp, Cavefors.
1966
En ny vänster
Editor and co-author, Stockholm, Rabén & Sjögren.
Recent Articles and Chapters
2026
The Twenty-first Century Left: Forces, Organization, and Prospects
In D. Freeman (ed.), The Global Left in a Multipolar World: Towards a Planetary Politics of Justice and Survival, Routledge.
2025
Frames of Time
Paper for the conference The Past Is the Future, Diyarbakir, 16-18 April.
2025
¿Cómo gobierna la clase dominante (cincuenta años después)?
CLACSO, Buenos Aires, course paper.
2025
The current master conflict in the world is geopolitical
Historical Expertise, no. 1.
2025
On the Significance of ”Civilizations” and Other Cultural Entities
Critique of Thought. Journal of Critical Thinking and Contradictory Ideas, no. 1.
2025
La Era de la democracia genocida
In John M. Ackerman (ed.), Más allá de la democracia neoliberal, UNAM Mexico City.
2024
Cities in Their States
In P. Le Galès and J. Robinson (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies.
2024
The Late Encounter between Inequality and Class
In M. Lundahl (ed.), Inequality: Economic and Social Issues, Routledge.
2024
Left Futures
New Left Review, no. 145.
2024
Entrevista
Vínculos, vol. 5, no. 9, Universidad de Guadalajara.
2023
Anti-Imperialism and Digging for the Roots of Power and Privilege
In C. O. Christiansen et al. (eds.), Talking about Global Inequality, Palgrave.
2023
The Capitalist State and the Looming Endgame of Western Domination
Interview with Haris Golemis, in Facing the State. Left Analyses and Perspectives.
2023
The pandemic experience and the post-pandemic world prospects
Thesis Eleven, online.
2023
Två århundraden
Parabol, no. 1.
2022
The World and the Left
New Left Review, no. 137.
2022
Crises and Futures of Social Democracy
In M. van der Linden (ed.), The Cambridge History of Socialism, vol. 2.
2022
Las paradojas de las socialdemocracias nórdicas
Nueva Sociedad, 297.
2022
Families in Latin America
With J. Cienfuegos, in Handbuch Familiensoziologie, Springer VS.
2021
Into the Hottest Century and into Epochal Change
Revista de Estudios Globales, 1(1).
2021
Two Epochal Turns of Inequality, Their Significance and Their Dynamics
The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 8, 9.
2021
States, Nations, and Civilizations
Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 14(2), 225-242.
Languages
Therborn’s works have appeared in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, English, French, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Slovene, Serbo-Croat, Hungarian, Polish, Belarussian, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Chinese and Korean.
Documents
Recent speeches
Old speech and presentation references collected on a separate page.
Contact
Email and postal address for Göran Therborn.