Based on over four years of ethnographic research with various groups that made up the Jordanian Popular Movement 2011/2012 (al-Hirak al Sha’bi al Urduni, Hirak in short) this paper examines the concept of economic sovereignty. Economic sovereignty was at the heart of popular demands in so called Arab Spring protests. I examine the discourse and practice of protestors in the Jordanian Hirak. I ask what we can learn from protestors in Jordan about the ability of people living in the global south to truly have sovereignty over the economic aspects of their life and the economic foreign policy of their countries. One of the core demands of protestors across the Arab world and in Jordan has been the ability of people to have -what I have termed- ‘economic sovereignty’. Yet, none of the literature on the ‘Arab Spring’ has been able to capture this core demand. In this paper I draw on the experiences of activists from different factions of the Jordanian Hirak to develop the concept of economic sovereignty. This paper contributes to the discussion started by David Held and others about the impossibility of democratic decision making at an age of globalization when most decisions are taken by non-state actors on the international level. Drawing on the discourse of protestors, I argue centrally that economic sovereignty needs to be theorized and understood for the people to be able to truly change the regime.