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The crisis of industrial citizenship has left a «structural void» in Western societies (Streeck 2016). Following this line of thought (section 2), the paper argues for an alternative vision of citizenship based on the defence and management of local commons. We define commons as «things common to all, that is those things which are used and enjoyed by everyone… but can never be exclusively acquired as a whole»(Araral 2014, 12). The adjective «local» refers to the role–actual and/or potential–played in their defence and management by the citizens of a given local area in the course of their daily life activities. Under what conditions and by which mechanisms do the defence and management of local commons open new spaces for the recovery of citizenship? To address this question, we propose to frame local commons within the range of «Foundational Economy»(FE). FE (section 5) refers to the «civic …