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This article analyses two visual representations of highly publicized cases of violence against women in Canada by drawing on innovative bridging of Gramsci’s hegemonic common sense and Deleuze’s cliche. I argue that as elements in the representational assemblage surrounding these cases, both cultural productions contributed to the construction of such acts of gendered violence as national events.Both images exploit the capacity of cliche to move images towards meaning and to move the audience into and out of affective proximity with those being represented. The first case study, a series of paintings by Pamela Masik entitled The Forgotten, fails to close the distance between the viewer and the marginalized women depicted. By contrast, the effect of cliche in the second case study, an episode of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s series, The Fifth Estate, is to create subjective distances, reinstating dominant common sense about the boundaries between strangers and neighbours and upholding th...

This article centers around two questions: (a) What do social workers do at the sites where psychopharmaceuticals and practice with children and youth converge? and (b) Are social differences reinscribed through our practices at these sites of convergence? A Foucauldian analytics of governmentality provides a lens through which the authors explore how social workers function within neoliberal discourses, specifically when they are called to reinforce compliance and disciplinary practices in their interventions with children and youth. Drawing on two practice examples, the authors argue the importance of an analytics of historical contexts of race and ability when working with medicated children and youth.