The Critical Theory of Surfing and Skateboarding (Under contract with Routledge)

Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing. (July 2024. San Diego State University Press). Co-edited with Kristin Lawler and David Cline.

Roberts, Michael, and Lawler, Kristin. 2024. “General Introduction to Special Issue on Surfing and Skateboarding.” Sport In Society 28 (2): 167-173. 

Roberts, Michael, and Lawler, Kristin. 2024. “Heroic Idleness: Class Matters in the History of Surfing.” Sport In Society 28 (2): 195-219.

Roberts, Michael and Ponting, Jess. (2020). “Waves of Simulation: Arguing Authenticity in an Era of Surfing the Hyperreal,”, The International Review for the Sociology of Sport 55 (2): 229-245. 

Roberts, Michael and Lawler, Kristin. (2024). “Introduction,” in Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing (San Diego State University Press).

Roberts, Michael and Lawler, Kristin. (2024). “Interventions in the Social Construction of Space and Time: What’s at Stake in the Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing,” in Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing (San Diego State University Press).

Lawler, Kristin and Roberts, Michael. (2024). “Hallelujah I’m a Bum: The Anti-Work Ethic in Surfer-Wobbly Countercultures,” Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing (San Diego State University Press).

Review of Waiki’ki Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture by Patrick Moser. Online, December 16, 2024: idrottsforum.org: A Nordic Sport Science Forum – Making Sense of Sports. Published by Malmö University. 

Review of Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers, by Ugo Corte in Contemporary Sociology 53: 1, January 2024.