Roberts, JM. (2026) 'Pierre Bourdieu and the Sociology of Free Speech', in Harnois, C. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Speech and Censorship. Oxford University Press.

Roberts, JM. (2024) 'The Neoliberal City, Democracy and Participation'. Urban Eidos, 1 (3 (in press)).

Roberts, JM. (2024) 'De la reflexión a la refracción: abriendo el marxismo abierto', in Bonefeld, W., Gunn, R. and Psychopedis, K. (eds.) Marxismo Abierton. Volumen II. Teoría Y Práctica. , 2. pp. 223 - 257. ISBN 10: 8485209672. ISBN 13: 9788485209675.

Roberts, JM. (2024) 'Outline of a Critical Sociology of Free Speech in Everyday Life: Beyond Liberal Approaches'. The Sociological Review, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 17. ISSN: 0038-0261 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2024) 'Digital Technology, Work, Finance and Crises: Do We Now Live in Lash and Urry’s Capitalism of Mobilities or in Ernest Mandel’s Late Capitalism?'. Revista de Estudios Globales, 3 (5). pp. 133 - 159.Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2023) 'A road scheme, the state, and the détournement of urban space: Henri Lefebvre and competing publics in postwar Hyde Park, London'. Political Geography, 107. pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 0962-6298 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (Accepted) 'Critical Realism', in Theodoros, I. (ed.) The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Research Methods in the Social Sciences. Edward Elgar. , forthcoming.

Roberts, JM. (2023) 'Traffic logic, state strategies and free speech in an urban park: The Park Lane Road Improvement Scheme, London, 1955–1962'. Journal of Historical Geography, 81. pp. 179 - 189. ISSN: 0305-7488 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2023) 'Multiaccentual coalitions, dialogic grief and carnivalesque assemblies: Judith Butler and Mikhail Bakhtin meet in the world of ethics'. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 0 (ahead-of-print). pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 0191-4537 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2023) 'Judith Butler, the Bakhtin Circle and Free Speech: State Hegemony, Race and Grievability in R.A.V. v. St Paul'. Law and Critique: journal of critical legal studies, 34 (2). pp. 249 - 267. ISSN: 0957-8536 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2023) 'Assemblies, Coalitions, and Conflicts Over Free Speech: From “Trespass” to “Encroachment” in Urban Space at Hyde Park, London, 1861–1962'. Antipode: a radical journal of geography, 55 (3). pp. 916 - 934. ISSN: 0066-4812 Open Access Link

Ibrahim, J., Millward, P., Roberts, J. and Spracklen, K. (2023) 'Introduction: Social theory and social movements – 21st-century innovations and contentions'. Capital and Class, 47 (1). pp. 3 - 6. ISSN: 0309-8168 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2022) 'The Right to the City, Public Space, and Free Speech'. Manchester Memoirs: Proceedings for the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 159 (2020-2021). pp. 117 - 134. ISSN: 0265-3575 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. and Ibrahim, J. (2022) 'Open Marxism, social class, and social and political movements'. Capital and Class, 47 (1). pp. 7 - 27. ISSN: 0309-8168 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2022) 'Digital, Class, Work: Before and During COVID-19'. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISSN 10: 1-3995-0295-6 ISSN 13: 978-1-3995-0293-1

Roberts, JM. and Cremin, C. (2019) 'Prosumer Culture and the Question of Fetishism'. Journal of Consumer Culture, 19 (2). pp. 213 - 230. ISSN: 1469-5405 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. and Ibrahim, J. (2018) 'Contemporary Left-Wing Activism. Vol. 2: Democracy, Participation and Dissent in a Global Context (edited collection)'. London: Routledge. ISSN 10: 1-351-04740-X ISSN 13: 978-0-8153-6397-2

Roberts, JM. and Ibrahim, J. (2018) 'Contemporary Left-Wing Activism. Vol. 1: Democracy, Participation and Dissent in a Global Context (edited collection)'. London: Routledge. ISSN 10: 1-351-04736-1 ISSN 13: 978-0-8153-6350-7

Roberts, JM. (2018) 'Democracy and Participation: Liberal, Leftist and Socialist Perspectives', in Roberts, JM. and Ibrahim, J. (eds.) Contemporary Left-Wing Activism. London : Routledge. , 1. pp. 1 - 26. ISBN 10: 1-351-04736-1. ISBN 13: 978-0-8153-6350-7.

Ibrahim, J. and Roberts, JM. (2018) 'Lenin’s Lens: The Occupy Movement, an Infantile Disorder?'. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 3 (1). ISSN: 2589-1316 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2018) 'Sociology of the State', in Spillman, L. (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Oxford University Press.

Roberts, JM. (2018) 'Speakers' Corner', in Orum, T. (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Wiley-Blackwell.

Roberts, JM. (2018) 'The Public Sphere', in Orum, T. (ed.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Wiley-Blackwell.

Roberts, JM. (2017) 'Outline of a Marxist Commodity Theory of the Public Sphere'. Historical Materialism, 25 (1). pp. 3 - 35. ISSN: 1569-206X Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. and Cremin, C. (2016) 'Contested Meanings, Myths and Hyperimages of the Apocalypse: The Bakhtin Circle and the Politicisation of Catastrophism'. Social Semiotics, 27 (2). pp. 178 - 194. ISSN: 1035-0330 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2016) 'Co-creative Prosumer Labor, Financial Knowledge Capitalism, and Marxist Value Theory'. The Information Society, 32 (1). pp. 28 - 39. ISSN: 0197-2243 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2015) ''Insult and Devaluation'', in Fahenbrach, K., Klimke, M. and Scharloth, J. (eds.) Protest Cultures: A Companion. Berghahn Books. , 17. pp. 359 - 365.

Roberts, JM. (2015) ''Neoliberalism and Financialization'', in Ba, S.M. and Ness, I. (eds.) Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave.

Roberts, JM. (2014) 'Digital Publics: Cultural Political Economy, Financialisation, and Organisational Politics'. London: Routledge. ISSN 10: 041564125X ISSN 13: 978-0415641258

Roberts, JM. (2014) 'New Media and Public Activism: Neoliberalism, the State and Radical Protest in the Public Sphere.'. Bristol: Policy Press. ISSN 10: 1447308220 ISSN 13: 978-1447308225

Roberts, JM. (2014) 'Critical Realism, Dialectics, and Qualitative Research Methods'. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 44 (1). pp. 1 - 23. ISSN: 1468-5914 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. and Joseph, J. (2014) 'Beyond Flows, Fluids and Networks: Social Theory and the Fetishism of the Global Informational Economy'. New Political Economy, 20 (1). pp. 1 - 20. ISSN: 1356-3467 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2014) 'How are George Orwell's writings a precursor to studies of popular culture?'. Journal for Cultural Research, 18 (3). pp. 216 - 232. ISSN: 1479-7585 Open Access Link

Brown, A. and Roberts, J.M. (2014) ''An Appraisal of the Contribution of Critical Realism to Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology: Is Dialectics the Way Forward?'', in Edwards, P., O'Mahaoney, J. and Vincent, S. (eds.) Studying Organizations Using Critical Realism. Oxford University Press.

Roberts, JM. (2012) 'Discourse or dialogue? Habermas, the Bakhtin Circle, and the question of concrete utterances'. Theory and Society, 41 (4). pp. 395 - 419. ISSN: 0304-2421 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2012) 'Poststructuralism against poststructuralism: Actor-network theory, organizations and economic markets'. European Journal of Social Theory, 15 (1). pp. 35 - 53. ISSN: 1368-4310 Open Access Link

Cremin, C. and Roberts, JM. (2011) ''Postmodern Left-liberalism: Hardt and Negri and the Disavowal of Critique''. Critical Sociology, 37 (2). pp. 179 - 197. ISSN: 0896-9205

Roberts, J. (2011) ''The Development of Free Speech in Modern Britain''. Speakers' Corner Trust http://www.speakerscornertrust.org/forum/occasional-essays/.

Roberts, JM. (2010) ''The Public Sphere'', in Bevir, M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Political Theory. London : Sage.

Roberts, J. (2010) ''The State, Empire, and Imperialism''. Current Sociology, 58 (6). pp. 833 - 858. ISSN: 0011-3921

Roberts, JM. (2010) ''Reading Orwell Through Deleuze''. Deleuze Studies, 4 (3). pp. 356 - 380. ISSN: 1750-2241

Roberts, JM. (2009) 'The Competent Public Sphere: Global Political Economy, Dialogue, and the Contemporary Workplace'. Palgrave. ISSN 13: 9781349284290

Roberts, JM. (2008) ''Public Spaces of Dissent''. Sociology Compass, 2 (2). pp. 654 - 674.

Roberts, JM. (2008) 'Expressive free speech, the state, and the public sphere: A Bakhtinian–Deleuzian analysis of ‘public address’ at Hyde Park'. Social Movement Studies, 7 (2). pp. 101 - 119. ISSN: 1474-2829 Open Access Link

Roberts, JM. (2007) 'Various Entries', in Churchill, H. and Sanders, T. (eds.) Getting Your PhD. London : Sage.

Roberts, JM. (2007) ''Poststructuralism' (dictionary entry)', in Hartwig, M. (ed.) Dictionary of Critical Realism. London : Routledge.

Dean, K., Joseph, J., Roberts, JM. and Wight, C. (2006) 'Realism, Philosophy and Social Science'. Palgrave MacMillan. ISSN 10: 1403946736 ISSN 13: 9781403946737

New, C., Roberts, JM. and Groff, R. (2005) ''Taking Relativism Seriously''. Journal of Critical Realism, 4 (1). pp. 221 - 246.

Joseph, J. and Roberts, JM. (2005) ''Derrida, Foucault and Žižek: Being Realistic about Social Theory''. New Formations, 56 (Autumn). pp. 109 - 120.

Roberts, JM. and Sanders, T. (2005) ''Before, During and After: Realism, Reflexivity and Ethnography''. The Sociological Review, 53 (2). pp. 294 - 313. ISSN: 0038-0261