Joseph, J. and Roberts, JM. (2004) 'Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction'. London: Routledge. ISSN 10: 0-203-30047-5 ISSN 13: 978-0-415-32263-8

Roberts, JM. (2004) ''The Stylistics of Competent Speaking: A Bakhtinian Exploration of some Habermasian Themes''. Theory, Culture and Society, 21 (6). pp. 91 - 114+200. ISSN: 0263-2764

Roberts, JM. and Devine, F. (2004) ''Some Everyday Experiences of Voluntarism''. Social Politics, 11 (2). pp. 280 - 296.

Crossley, N. and Roberts, JM. (2004) 'After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (edited collection)'. Wiley-Blackwell. ISSN 10: 1405123656 ISSN 13: 9781405123655

Roberts, JM. (2004) ''Will the Materialists in the Bakhtin Cicle Please Stand Up?'', in Joseph, J. and Roberts, JM. (eds.) Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction.. Routledge. pp. 89 - 110. ISBN 10: 0203300475. ISBN 13: 9780203300473.

Roberts, JM. (2004) ''John Stuart Mill, Free Speech and the Public Sphere'.', in Crossley, N. and Roberts, JM. (eds.) After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere. Blackwell.

Roberts, JM. and Devine, F. (2003) ''Alternative Approaches to Measuring Social Capital: A Note on van Deth's "Measuring Social Capital"''. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 6 (1). pp. 93 - 100. ISSN: 1364-5579

Roberts, JM. and Devine, F. (2003) ''Hollowing Out of the Welfare State and Social Capital''. Social Policy and Society, 2 (4). pp. 1 - 10.

Roberts, JM. (2003) 'The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere'. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 10: 1-4039-0566-5

Brown, A., Fleetwood, S. and Roberts, JM. (2002) 'Critical Realism and Marxism (edited collection)'. Routledge. ISSN 10: 0415250137 ISSN 13: 9780415250139

Roberts, JM. (2002) ''From Reflection to Refraction: Opening Up Open Marxism''. Capital and Class, 78 (3). pp. 87 - 116. ISSN: 0309-8168

Roberts, JM. (2002) ''Abstracting Emancipation: Two Dialectics on the Trail of Freedom'.', in Brown, A., Fleetwood, S. and Roberts, JM. (eds.) Critical Realism and Marxism.. Routledge. pp. 234 - 256. ISBN 10: 0203299221. ISBN 13: 9780203299227.

Roberts, JM. (2001) ''Realistic Spatial Abstraction? Marxist Observations of a Claim within Critical Realist Geography''. Progress in Human Geography, 25 (4). pp. 545 - 567. ISSN: 0309-1325

Roberts, JM. (2001) ''Dialogue, Positionality and the Legal Framing of Ethnographic Research''. Sociological Research Online, 5 (4). ISSN: 1360-7804

Roberts, JM. (2001) ''Critical Realism and the Dialectic''. The British Journal of Sociology, 52 (4). pp. 667 - 685. ISSN: 0007-1315

Roberts, JM. (2001) ''Spatial Governance and Working Class Public Spheres: The Case of a Chartist Demonstration at Hyde Park''. Journal of Historical Sociology, 14 (3). pp. 308 - 333.

Roberts, JM. (2000) ''The Enigma of Free Speech: Speakers' Corner, the Geography of Governance and a Crisis of Rationality''. Social and Legal Studies, 9 (2). pp. 271 - 292. ISSN: 0964-6639

Roberts, JM. (1999) ''Investigating a "Criminal" Public Sphere'.', in Brookman, F., Noaks, L. and Wincup, E. (eds.) Qualitative Research in Criminology.. Ashgate.

Roberts, JM. (1999) ''Marxism and Critical Realism: The Same, Similar or Just Plain Different?''. Capital and Class, 68. pp. 21 - 49.