Jorge Duran Solorzano
PhD candidate / contract
- Name
- J.F. Duran Solorzano MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- j.f.duran.solorzano@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0496-5606

Jorge Durán Solórzano is a Ph.D. candidate at the Leiden University Center for the Arts in Society. His research focuses on the argumentative and rhetorical discourses that emerge from the relationship between the state and armed movements. His dissertation examines guerrilla communiqués in Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on the construction of the revolutionary ethos of these organizations in response to criminalizing tropes employed by the state and the media.
More information about Jorge Duran Solorzano
Fields of interest
- Argumentation and Rhetoric
- Contentious politics
- Discourse analysis
- Latin American social movements
- Linguistic (in)justice
- Social justice
PhD candidate / contract
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Literatuurwetenschap
- Duran Solorzano J. (9 December 2021), From the Fuerzas de Liberación Nacional’s “Dictatorship of the Proletariat” to the Zapatistas’ “Govern by Obeying”: A brief Recap. Kontrapunkte. [blog entry].
- Duran Solorzano J (2019), One does not punch a discussion partner: An analysis of the strategic maneuvering justifying radical actions in communiqués issued in social conflicts. Garssen B. J, Godden D., Mitchell G. & Wagemans J. (Eds.). Ninth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation 3 July 2018 - 6 July 2018. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation: Amsterdam: Sic Sat.