Journal Articles
2025. Gómez-Delgado, J. Breaking infrastructure: Acts of sabotage against privatization in Colombia. Human Geography, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786251400320
2025. Chalela, M. D., & Gómez-Delgado, J. Debt entanglements: Rethinking the developmental state in the global South. Economy and Society, 1–22.
Co-edited volume
2025. The Sociological Profession in Colombia (1960-2010): The voice of its protagonists. (In Spanish with Jefferson Jaramillo, Janneth Aldana, Nelson Gómez, Ricardo Barrero, Jaime Eduardo Jaramillo). Universidad Javeriana Press & Universidad Nacional.
Book chapters
2025. “’Creole’ Modernizers and Regional World-Makers: Vignettes from the CEPAL Building in Santiago (1957-1966) and the Kenyatta Centre in Nairobi (1967-1973)” with Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín. Edited volume, International Law and Architecture, Elgar Publishers.
2020. “La Misión de Economía y Humanismo en Colombia: reconstrucción de su trabajo, 1954-1958” [The Mission of Economy and Humanism in Colombia: a reconstruction of its work, 1954-1958]. Trayectorias y proyectos intelectuales en América Latina y Colombia. Samuel Vanegas (coord.), Editorial Javeriana, Bogotá.
Book reviews
2025. Lee, Jack Jin Gary and Julián Gómez-Delgado. “Book review: Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 11(1): 123-125.
2022. "Lina Britto. Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2020, 352 pp. ISBN: 9780520325470." Historia Agraria de América Latina, 2(02), 163–166.
2019. "Robert Karl. Forgotten Peace. Reform, Violence, and the Making of Contemporary Colombia. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2017." Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura,, v. 46, n. 2, p. 333-336, jul.
Public Scholarship
> Closing the Extractive Frontier / Cerrando la frontera extractiva. Phenomenal World. June 13, 2025
(with Gabriel Hetland & Lala Peñaranda).
> Edificio de la CEPAL. Modernismo Latinoamericano, 2025.
> Las vueltas de tuerca de la izquierda latinoamericana. HONGOS. Revista de la Universidad de México. (In Spanish). March, 2023.
> with Pablo Durán-Chaparro & Luis Carlos Cote, Chegou a hora de retomarmos a reforma agrária. Jacobin Brasil (In Portuguese), Feb., 2023; ¿La era de la reforma agraria? Jacobin América Latina. (In Spanish), Sept. 2022
> La izquierda se prepara para gobernar Colombia. Revista Nueva Sociedad (In Spanish); The Left Poised to Govern Colombia. Democracy Seminar.; Como a esquerda quer governar a Colômbia. Outras Palavras (In Portuguese) - Jun/July, 2022
> The Decline of Colombia’s Centaur State. Public Seminar. June 1, 2021
> “Colombia’s New Awakening” (with Isabel Peñaranda). Jacobin Magazine. Dec. 2019
> “An endless conflict? On the murder of social leaders in Colombia”. Revista Nueva Sociedad (In Spanish) Sept. 2018
> Peace in its Labyrinth: The Assassination of Social Leaders in Colombia. Horizontal, Mexico (In Spanish). July 27, 2018
> Ayotzinapa: two years with more than 43 reasons. Vanguardia Liberal. Bucaramanga, Colombia. (In Spanish). Dec. 4, 2016.
Translations
> “La solidaridad como afrenta al coronavirus” by Jeddeiah Britton-Purdy. Published in Revista Nueva Sociedad, [Original in English: “The Only Treatment for Coronavirus is Solidarity.”], April 2020.
Interviews, Podcasts
> Co-host. Podcast Episode of Sur-Urbano. Latin American Cities Working Group (UC-Berkeley), hosted by Isabel Peñaranda Currie. “The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas with Professor Amy C. Offner.” Aug. 3, 2022
> Conversation with sociologist Estefanía Ciro on her last book “Levantados de la selva: Vidas y legitimidades en los territorios cocaleros del Caquetá”. Sociology Department, Javeriana University. April 29, 2021
> “The Majority Report” with Sam Seder. Interview about the “Colombia’s New Awakening” article in Jacobin Magazine (with Isabel Peñaranda Currie). Dec. 19, 2019.