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

Original CV

Preserved from the previous media library.

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Recent speeches

Old speech and presentation references collected on a separate page.

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