This edited volume breaks new ground and opens up new perspectives by capturing the role played by claims to authenticity in populist discourses in Brazil, India and Ukraine. By conceiving of both triumphant populism and increasing demands for authenticity as expressions of crisis, the volume seeks to satisfy the need to take a closer look at yearnings for orientation in a globalised world that is often associated with rapid social change and the disappearance of old certainties. Starting from the assumption that media play a crucial role for populist discourses of authenticity, the volume moves beyond conventional and social media by expanding its focus to media in formal education, notably school textbooks and curricula. These two particular media formats lastingly shape younger generations and thus the future. The proposed volume adopts global perspectives from three postcolonial countries that are often beyond the scope of studies dealing with populist discourses and media entanglements insights that contribute new aspects to international scholarly debates.

Christoph Kohl was Post-doctoral Researcher at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI), Braunschweig, Germany.Barbara Christophe is Senior Researcher at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI), Braunschweig, Germany.Heike Liebau is Senior Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany.Achim Saupe is Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Germany.

Part I.- Chapter 1: Claims to Authenticity in Populist Discourses: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Materialisations of Populism in Today's Politics: Global Perspectives.- Chapter 3: Theorising Populism: Lessons Learned from the Indian Example.- Part II.- Chapter 4:  Populism and the Media: Introduction to Part II.- Chapter 5: Populism and the Media in Brazil: the case of Jair Bolsonaro.- Chapter 6: Matters of the Heart: The Sentimental Indian Prime Minister on All India Radio.- Chapter 7: The 2019 Presidential Election in Ukraine: Populism, the Influence of the Media, and the Victory of the Virtual Candidate.- Part III.- Chapter 8: Educational media and populism: Introduction to Part III.- Chapter 9: Against Indoctrination: The movement Escola Sem Partido in educational media of present-day Brazil.-Chapter 10: Populist Pulp in a Democracy: Propagandist Textbooks of the Hindu Right.- Chapter 11: Gender and Patriotic Education: Populist Discourses and the Post-colonial Condition in School Media.